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Australian Sun Installation Can Be Controlled By iPhones or iPads
Melbourne is famed for having four seasons in one day, so it's only fitting that a 14m (diameter-wise) animated scale model of the sun should be suspended in the sky, controllable with an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch.
It was created by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer for the Light in Winter festival in Melbourne. Beamed onto the helium-filled balloon sun with five projectors are NASA images showing actual sun effects such as turbulence, flares and spots; visible to the passersby beneath.
If you happen to be in Melbourne, it's on show at the Federation Square until the 4th of July. Grab your portable Apple device, but just be careful you don't become another Icarus.
Send an email to Kat Hannaford, the author of this post, at khannaford@gizmodo.com.
Listen To a Solar Flare Play a Mean Power Chord
Between looking absolutely beautiful and probably killing us all some day, is there anything solar flares can't do? Actually, no, there's not. And here's the dulcet tones of solar flare music that proves it:
Sound of the Sun (courtesy Richard Morton) by University of Sheffield
It turns out that the corona of the sun contains giant magnetic loops that vibrate much like a guitar string or a woodwind reed. And Sheffield University's joyously named Professor Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen has created software to convert those vibrations into music.
At the heart of the project is an earnest attempt to understand more about the physics behind the sun's outer layers. But even if that effort winds up fruitless, at least we'll get some killer licks out of it. [SoundCloud Fox via Fark]
Image Credit: NASA]
Send an email to Brian Barrett, the author of this post, at bbarrett@gizmodo.com.
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Tagged: sun, sunshine มิถุนายน 25, 2010
Este curioso bocado de pez envuelto en arroz y convertido en la máxima representación del exotismo culinario en Occidente, esconde una larga historia que comienza en el Sur de Asia hace más 2.000 años.
El pescado era en el siglo IV a. c. una fuente importante de proteínas para la dieta de los habitantes del Sudeste asiático. Un bien muy preciado que había que conservar. Para ello, los peces, una vez limpios y destripados, se envolvían en arroz, cuyo proceso de fermentación era el mejor conservante del pescado durante meses e incluso años.
Llegado el momento sólo se consumía el pescado y el arroz se desechaba. La fórmula evolucionó e introdujo nuevos elementos como la presión de planchas de piedra o el vinagre que hacía fermentar más rápido el arroz y en consecuencia, conservaba mejor el pescado en menos tiempo.
Esta curiosa práctica pasó de Tailandia a China hasta llegar a Japón donde comenzó a consumirse el pescado, todavía crudo, junto con el arroz que lo envolvía y que no había llegado a fermentar del todo. Es en Japón por tanto donde el sushi dejó de ser una mera fórmula de conservación para convertirse en todo un arte culinario.
Ante la degradación de la calidad de nuestra alimentación, el sushi se perfila como una solución sana para hacer frente a las exigencias de la vida urbana.El sushi está lleno de beneficios para la salud. Es rico en el ácido graso llamado omega-3, y es bajo en grasa; las algas marinas son ricas en yodo y el arroz es una excelente fuente de carbohidratos. Una típica ración de sushi (de 7 a 9 piezas) tiene alrededor de 300 calorías, lo que cabe perfectamente en una dieta equilibrada y saludable.
Pescado el ingrediente principal.
El pescado es un alimento con muchas cualidades: todos los nutricionistas coinciden en alabar sus bondades.La carne de pescado es menos grasa y contiene más agua que la de los animales terrestres, lo que la hace menos calórica.
El más graso de los pescados es menos calórico que un filete de buey.
Tiene un notable valor nutritivo, puesto que contiene proteínas de excelente calidad con todos los aminoácidos indispensables en una proporción casi ideal.
Por consiguiente, aporta todos los elementos esenciales para el buen funcionamiento del organismo.
Asimismo, el pescado es una importante fuente de ácidos grasos omega 9, omega 6 y omega 3, el famoso «colesterol bueno», tan beneficioso para el estado de ánimo y la sensación bienestar.
Otra de las virtudes del pescado es su contenido en minerales, globalmente al de la carne, y de vitaminas A y D, que contribuyen a la fijación del calcio en los huesos, además de su contenido en selenio. Este último oligoelemento es indispensable para el cuerpo humano, ya que juega un papel clave en el conjunto del organismo retrasando su envejecimiento y protegiéndolo contra el cáncer o las enfermedades cardiovasculares.
Por último, tiene la cualidad nada desdeñable de proteger contra el cáncer de pulmón si se consume crudo
Otros ingredientes.
El arroz japonés es rico en minerales, fósforo, almidón y vitamina B1, el arroz es un cereal completo cuyo aporte glucídico es sumamente importante y perfectamente recomendable para las personas alérgicas al gluten.
El nori, que son láminas de algas secas, es un alimento libre de grasa y contiene varias vitaminas como la A y la B, y alto nivel de yodo, que es un oligoelemento esencial – ayuda a prevenir el hipotiroidismo o hipertiroidismo.
Los vegetales utilizados también son ricos en vitaminas y proporcionan fibra. En general la combinación de grasas saludables, fibra y vitaminas hacen que el sushi proporcione una comida completa, saludable y sea un verdadero deleite para el paladar.
Okay, before we get started with tons of beer talk, I have some friends and family to acknowledge.
First, I will that I just had a special delivery taste of the yet-to-be released Moog Filtered Ale. Brewgasm!
It’s a pine-scented American-style pale ale with a gentle hoppy bite brewed by Asheville Brewing Company. It’ll be released on May 27 here in Ashevegas, and available for ordering via Bruisin’ Ales beer shop starting May 31. Read the article I just wrote for Mountain Xpress about Moog Filtered Ale here.
Now for the thanks (in no particular order). Oh, and I’ve shared brewgasms with all of these folks–life is fricking good.
To the editors at Mountain Xpress for letting me write a beer column and also allowing me to sometimes write about beer in my parenting column.
To my sexy writer friends: Julie, Alisa and Andi for the brainstorming time, girl talk and sushi. Also, Alisa gets credit for coming up with “beergasm,” which I then changed to “brewgasm.” Without that spark…
To the Blogasheville community for being there and for voting me “Blogger We’d Most Like to See Naked.” Best award ever.
To Eric at Insidedesign for web design and support and patiently answering all my dumb technical questions.
To Sean for the banner design, amazing photography and for really getting the Brewgasm concept right away (He’s under-the-radar guy and isn’t affiliated with any web sites. Weird).
To Chall, for listening, editing, and holding my feet to the fire over countless lunches and beers.
To beer queen Julie, for being my sister in beer and always supporting whatever crazy schemes I come up with.
To Jason for beer tips and for editing my stuff–even when we’re working different sides of the same fence.
To Jimi, for beer scoop and for knowing me longer than anyone else in this town and still liking me.
To George, my craft beer and life mentor–definitely one of the sparks to my fire.
To all the local brewers and beer peeps who speak to me when I call, give me brews news, and let me take sips of their beers (I’m really not contagious). Check out my blogroll to learn more about them.
To Enviro-spouse, who puts up with having half of our small fridge filled with beer and who adores and supports me even when he’s not sure that what I’m doing makes logical sense.
To my kids who think all that grown-ups talk about is beer (yeah, they’re gonna be warped).
Finally, to all my family members who still read my writing even though they think I’m a leftist nut job beer snob. All of which I am.
I’m sure there are folks I’ve forgotten. If so, forgive me. And tell me so.
xoxoxo
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Tagged: asia, food, japanesse, sushi พฤษภาคม 13, 2010
AMMAN, Jordan A Jordanian newspaper's April Fool's Day report chronicling a late-night visit by 10-foot-tall aliens in flying saucers sparked public panic and almost led to the town's emergency evacuation, officials said Monday.
The Al Ghad newspaper published a front-page article April 1 about the fake UFO landing near the desert town of Jafr, some 185 miles (300 kilometers) from the capital, Amman. The report said the UFOs lit up the whole town, interrupted communications and sent fearful residents streaming into the streets.
Jafr's mayor, Mohammed Mleihan, got caught up in the paper's prank and said he sent security authorities in search of the aliens.
“Students didn't go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town's 13,000 residents,” Mleihan told The Associated Press. “People were scared that aliens would attack them.”
A Jordanian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to discuss security issues, said an emergency plan was almost enacted in Jafr.
Mleihan said he may sue the daily for its “big lie,” but added that the paper had called to apologize for the inconvenience caused by the joke.
Al Ghad's managing editor, Moussa Barhoumeh, tried to defuse the situation, saying the report has been “blown out of proportion.”
“We meant to entertain, not scare people,” he said.
Orson Welles caused similar panic in 1938 with his infamous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast. The live drama's fake news reports about a Martian invasion sparked hysteria among listeners who thought its portrayal of the attack was true.
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Tagged: april, april fools, autumn เมษายน 6, 2010